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an Austrian stream rising in Lower Austria, and flowing N. E. to England, and investigated the language and customs of the gipsies, a subject on which between 1873 and 1890 he published four valuable works. Leland is most widely known, however, for his dialect poems in "Pennsylvania Dutch," the famous "Hans Breitmann Ballads" (1871). Other works are "The Poetry and Mystery of Dreams" (1855), Dreams" "Meister Karl's Sketch Book" (1855), and "Algonquin Legends" "Legends of Birds" (1864), "Fu-Sang" (1875), (1884). In 1885 he edited a series of "Art-Work Manuals." He died at Florence, Italy, March 20, 1903.

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